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Old 17-02-2010, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by wasyoungonce View Post
Ha...well it was nice and bright...a good starter target for F10. I needed to try something simple...to get some results at least.

I thought the stars were bloated because of the camera sensor (pixel size) oversampling?
Try applying a ddp filter, this should reduce the stars but may dim the nebula at the same time so then adjust levels until you get the nebulosity back but don't quite resaturate the stars. Now apply a log stretch and see what you get. I use Astroart4 and the DDP filter is excellent

Mike
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